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Activision Puts A Bullet In Black Ops Beta Rumors
Yesterday rumors swirled that Treyarch was readying a Call of Duty: Black Ops beta for Xbox Live and PSN. Today Activision lined up its sniper scope from two clicks away and buried the rumor with a bullet.
Treyarch community man Josh
Olin broke the news that Treyarch has no public beta planned and that all testing is being done internally.
"We're already doing an internal beta with all sorts of Activision
studios – thousands of people are participating in our beta," he told CVG. "That's the only formal beta that we're planning at the moment. There
were a lot of misconceptions, confusion, and Google ads. There was some
speculation that we'd be launching a public beta tonight – that's not
happening. The beta is internal only right now."
Olin justified the move by saying it helps streamline the development process. "Keeping it internal is very helpful for us. It allows us to
move a lot faster on our builds, so if we want to change something we
can easily push out a new build within the company to anyone who has one
of these dev kits," he added.
Now we have to keep our safeties on until November 9. Talk about a party killer! Let's hope Treyarch snuffs out the glitches early and the game doesn't suffer the same bumpy launch as Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
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